Rating: Summary: Great tribute to Audrey Hepburn. Not tabloid bio! Review: The last two reviewers seemed to have missed the Title of this book. Ms. Keogh clearly is saying here's a look at Audrey Hepburns "Style" because Biographys', especially tabloid type Bios have been done. Looking for such a bio in a book called Audrey Style makes you a suspect reviewer in my opinion. Reviewers with an agenda perhaps??? This is a wonderful look in words and pictures at a sometimes misunderstood, enigmatic person. The photos add to Ms. Keogh's beatiful biography which was thorough enough for my taste without the tabloidism that has tainted the memories of many great people. I loved the format which made no pretenses. Thank you Ms. Clarke-Keogh!
Rating: Summary: Fabulous! A coffee-table book with depth and style.... Review: Hepburn is one of those rare and enviable creatures who manages to exude style, warmth, and class without even seeming to try. Clarke Keogh has done a wonderful job, keeping the layout and graphics simplistic and minimal. Additionally, she keeps the writing free of fashionista jargon, and does a suitable job researching Hepburn's past. I appreciated the sketches and quotes by some of the greatest visionaries in the fashion business.The book has a wealth of information about Hepburn, I constantly use it as a reference....and as inspiration! After all....what girl doesn't want to be Audrey?
Rating: Summary: The Zen of Audrey's Style Review: A fun book for all Audrey admirers with a gentle warning to unquestioning mimics: The essence of Audrey is not to follow.
Rating: Summary: Audrey Hepburn would be pleased. Review: Not many books seem to be able to live up to their enthusiastic reviews, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that this one did. This captured the class of Audrey Hepburn, yet filled in the blanks on her life and style approach without sinking to a tabloid style of writing. She and Givenchy had one of the most successful "marriages" in history and it was interesting to read how they helped to bring out the best in each other. I enjoyed learning more about the story of her life and her relationships, as well as her career and her look. I found myself studying the many pictures of her both on and off the screen, and plan to incorporate in my own life some of the tips the author included. I highly recommend this book as an enjoyable read from start to finish.
Rating: Summary: It's got pretty pictures... Review: Audrey Style is a stylish, attractive coffee table book. However, it's just that: a coffee table book, best enjoyed by keeping it around (preferably on a coffee table), thumbing through the pictures every so often, and merely skimming the text in a couple of places. The pictures, of course, are great. After all, they're pictures of Audrey Hepburn! There's an enormous amount of pictures of her at various points in her career, and most of them truly seem to capture the grace, sophistication, and effortless style inherent in Audrey (and apparently missing in the world today.) The actual writing, though -- the "book" part -- falls short. It's a good read, and you'll learn a thing or two about Audrey, but nowhere is it genuinely insightful or analytical. The book is peppered with anecdotes that will make you think "Oh, how nice!" or "Oh, how funny!" ...but I'd like to think that there was more to Audrey than that. Too often, the book goes for unneccessary glorification. Every so often, you'll come across a quotation such as this: "Audrey Hepburn was really great. She was nice and beautiful and stylish and everybody wanted to be like her. There can be no one else like her." -- Someone From Hollywood Audrey Style is adorned with this sort of fluffy adoration, and even if the praise is due, it gets a little stale after being repeated so often. I'm also a little disappointed that a book titled "Audrey Style" is more of a biography than an analysis of her style; although the "style" part is present, I would have liked to see much more. To sum up: it's a good book, but it isn't that profound. The pictures make it worth buying, however; buy it for the pictures, keep it on your coffee table, and be dazzled by the glory that is Audrey. Just don't expect the words to capture her essence nearly so well.
Rating: Summary: Delivery doesn't match topic Review: A book like this should have more pictures. The ones it does have don't have captions. The writing is fairly ameteurish but does have some interesting stuff despite being from an angle I didn't like. I didn't like the big black pages with the white lettered quotes not just because some of the quotes weren't especially good, but because you can't read the middle that is in the binding and seems to be poor quality ink or paper. All around this book is just okay, great topic, poor delivery.
Rating: Summary: Glossy Review: This is a very attractive coffee table book to own, and one you are sure to enjoy thumbing through time after time. It also goes into more detail on Audrey's style and wardrobe than most other accounts. However, the book was a little disappointing on a few fronts. A main feature of this volume is its numerous photos, yet frustratingly, all the photo captions are in the back, all are very terse, and many contain no dates or identifications. The introduction by Givenchy is elegant but very brief, so one should not expect a long and descriptive essay. And while I enjoyed reading the text and learned a number of things from it, I found it seemed to create a rather too idealized picture of a very complex person, and to be repetative in its descriptions (how many times is the word 'gamine' used?). At times I also sensed the author chose to interpret things in an overly romantic way to further this image--for example citing Audrey's inability to eat during times of stress as her reverting to her girlhood days in war-ravaged Holland when she had to do with little or no food. By all accounts, Audrey was an incredible human being, but I recommend reading this book along with other accounts of her life to obtain a more balanced description.
Rating: Summary: A lovely book about a lovely creature. Review: Forget about the monthly fashion magazines that grace the bookstore shelves and which become dated within a few weeks. If you want to learn true style and eternal beauty, THIS IS THE BOOK. Yes, I have been an Audrey Hepburn fan since I was seven, but regardless of one's feelings about her, anyone can learn a thing or three from this book about how to live life in a way that reflects the simple beauty within each of us. The book is rich in insight regarding Audrey Hepburn's life and philosophy, which influenced her style tremendously. Ms. Keogh doesn't set out to tell us how to BE Audrey Hepburn, since of course that would be impossible as there could never be another one like her again. Rather, she tells us how she developed and found her style, and how we too can find our very own, in the true spirit of Audrey Hepburn.
Rating: Summary: I love this book! Review: This book is great for any Audrey Hepburn fan. It has an abundance of pictures of her throughout her life and in the back of the book the source of each photo. I was also impressed with biographical content. I really was not expecting much from the content but it was fun to read, recapturing moments from her movies, anecdotes of those who knew her, and more. However, if you are looking for a straight biography of Audrey Hepburn I would recommend Barry Paris' Audrey Hepburn book. This book is for those who, as the title implies, love the style of Audrey Hepburn. If you adore her clothes or her make up, and are interested in further appreciating that side of Audrey then buy this book. If you are simply interested in fashion of the 50s and 60s you may also want to look into this. And if you love Audrey Hepburn do not hesitate to look at this book.
Rating: Summary: a great book Review: This book really shows you many lovely photos of Audrey Hepburn and a lovely biogrpahy on her life, that doens't go into detail, but is v ery refreshing. It talks mainly about her sense of style and comments fromt he people who knew and loved her. It shows her style, charm and wonderful femininty, always elegance and lovely clothes. Her style never goe sout of fashion.
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